The January 2012 edition of the CSA newsletter is now online. Readers may be interested in my review of the website of Dikili Tash and an addendum to a project on publishing field projects on the Web that I am running together with the editor of the newsletter, Harrison Eiteljorg, II.
It will be very interesting also to read "Websites as Stable Resources", which is a sombre article on how much volatile academic websites are and "Evolving Web Standards: a Blessing and a Curse", where PDF is identified as best format to archive contents (I agree, but would prefer something designed specifically for the purpose).
The forum opened for our project is still available. There are many visitors, but no one so far has taken the plunge and participated. I understand that websites rank low among the priorities of project directors, and yet they offer a cost-effective mean to publish (at least some data) and propagate information to a broader audience. I have reviewed very recent websites in the last few issues of the newsletter, and I have to say that improving upon them would not take much time or effort. Field directors should not leave this matter to the last minute and conceive the website as a finished product like a book: a website is a dynamic product that needs careful planning, it should accompany an excavation or field project. The technical side of publishing a website is now largely transparent to authors if they opt to use a Content Management System (CMS) and there is no need for a web designer (i.e. someone preparing custom graphics and CSS styles) in the case of an academic website. Give the forum (and articles) a try, at least as reading material.